STOMIAS COLUBRINUS. 275 
Caudal pointed; D. 19; A. 21; P. short, V. long elongalus. 
as & De 18> Ap 18% PNaaW. elongate; LI]. 88 = gracilis. 
sé oe D. 18; A. 19; P. short, V. elongate ; Li. 72 boa. 
«rounded; D. 17; A. 21; BP. & V- not long Jerox. 
<concavels) D175 A/a); PS shorts. Ve lone nebulosus. 
a a D. 17; A. 20; P. medium, V. long affinis. 
<)torked'stsi)-.9'2) Acul32 Py Giviesmall barbatus. 
< ce Delo Al NOE Pe Ve short atriventer. 
€ cs D. 19; A. 23; P. short, V. longer; LI.67 hexagonatus. 
¢ c D. 18; A. 21; P. & V. medium colubrinus. 
Stomias colubrinus sp. n. 
Plate LVIL. fig. 1. 
Bre lS De hoc Ace ole wVeror, Ps 6: 
Body long, slender, compressed, abdominal chamber extending far behind 
the middle of the total length, depth about one eleventh of the length from 
snout to end of caudal. Head short, nearly one eighth of the entire length, 
chin long, forehead short. Snout little longer than the orbit. Mouth very 
wide; lower jaws prominent, curving up forward, little shorter than the 
head. Teeth slender, pointed, some of those on the jaws depressible ; each 
intermaxillary with five teeth, of which the first and third are smallest and 
the second largest; maxillary denticulate where forming the edge of the 
mouth; lower jaw with ten to twelve teeth of which the anterior three are 
smallest and the second three largest, denticulate backward of the twelve. 
A large hooked fang at each side of the vomer and directly backward from 
each of these a similar fang on the forward end of each palatine. Tongue 
rudimentary, toothless. Eye little less than one sixth as long as the head, 
two thirds of the leneth of the snout, length four fifths of the interorbital 
width. Four gills; no pseudobranchiz ; gill openings very wide; gill mem- 
branes not united, free from the isthmus. Opercles membranous. Hyoid 
barbel slender, hardly as long as the head, with a luminous bulb three 
fourths of the length from the chin, extending beyond the bulb in a couple 
of filaments or tentacles. 
Dorsal origin about one length of the head forward of the caudal, above 
the third ray of the anal fin, last ray above the eighteenth ray of the anal. 
Caudal forked, lower lobe much stronger, five short rays above the base and 
